Yukio Hatoyama

Yukio Hatoyama
Yukio Hatoyama
鳩山友紀夫
	Official portrait, 2007
Prime Minister of Japan
	In office; 16 September 2009 – 8 June 2010
Monarch	Akihito
Deputy	Naoto Kan
Preceded by	Tarō Asō
Succeeded by	Naoto Kan
President of the Democratic Party
	In office; 16 May 2009 – 4 June 2010
Preceded by	Ichirō Ozawa
Succeeded by	Naoto Kan
	In office; 25 September 1999 – 10 December 2002
Preceded by	Naoto Kan
Succeeded by	Naoto Kan
Member of the House of Representatives from Hokkaido
	In office; 23 June 1986 – 16 December 2012
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Manabu Horii
Constituency	9th district
Majority	122,345 (40.2%) (2009)
Personal details
Born	11 February 1947 (age 77); Bunkyō, Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Political party	Independent
Other political; affiliations	LDP (Before 1993); NPS (1993–1996); DPJ(96) (1996–1998); DPJ(98) (1998–2012); Independent (2012–2020); Kyowa (2020-2022)
Spouse	Miyuki Hatoyama (m. 1975)
Children	Kiichirō Hatoyama
Parent(s)	Iichirō Hatoyama; Yasuko Hatoyama
Relatives	Hatoyama family
Alma mater	University of Tokyo (BE); Stanford University (PhD)
Signature
Website	Official website

Yukio Hatoyama (鳩山友紀夫, born 鳩山由紀夫, Hatoyama Yukio, born 11 February 1947) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and Leader of the Democratic Party of Japan from 2009 to 2010. He was the first Prime Minister from the modern Democratic Party of Japan.^[1]

First elected to the House of Representatives in 1986, Hatoyama became President of the DPJ, the main opposition party, in May 2009. He then led the party to victory in the 2009 general election, defeating the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had been in power for over a decade. He represented the Hokkaido 9th district in the House of Representatives from 1986 to 2012.

In 2012, Hatoyama announced his retirement from politics.^[2] Since then, he has made large online presence such as on Twitter with his outspoken political views. He generated controversy when he visited Crimea in 2015 and claimed that the annexation by the Russian Federation was constitutional and falsely claimed that Ukraine and NATO would launch a nuclear strike against Russia in 2023.^[3]^[4] Hatoyama took part in founding the minor Kyowa Party in 2020, but later left the party.

^ Hayashi, Yuka. "Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Resigns; Search for New Leader Begins". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 10 August 2022.
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^ "Ex-prime minister Hatoyama defends referendum in Crimea as constitutional". The Japan Times. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
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[1] Hayashi, Yuka. "Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Resigns; Search for New Leader Begins". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 10 August 2022.

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[3] "Ex-prime minister Hatoyama defends referendum in Crimea as constitutional". The Japan Times. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2023.

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